BH quiz #9

These questions are culled from one of my notebooks (I call them my informal diaries) which you may see me scribbling in sometimes like, as one wag said, "John Doe from Seven ... next you'll be masturbating in your own faeces and reading gun magazines", rather than the many files. Therefore they are questions I think are really interesting to me and nowhere near as functional as the ones that litter those files and are the result of me going combine harvester-like through a pile of reference books. They are also a finite resource and one day they will probably run out so you are left with really boring questions that I feel I just have to know. Have my sincere apologies in advance.

1. In Hindu mythology, the Sanskrit word for which bird is hamsa?
2. Polar, subtropical and equatorial are the significant forms of which meteorological phenomenon?
3. Which football team's fans adopted the name Bluenoses due to some merchandise snuff that was sold in the 1920s and left a deposit over the middle of the face of the supporter?
4. What was the alter ego of Donatien Alphonse Francois?
5. Opened in Letchworth and staying teetotal until 1958, what was Britain's first non-alcoholic pub and which served apple juice and Bovril instead?
6. Volumes of work by which playwright and which other poet were found in the pockets of Percy Shelley when his body was washed ashore?
7. The bloodline of which short-legged and barrel-bodied heavy horse can be traced back to one stallion, Crisp's Horse of Ufford, which was foaled in 1786?
8. Gore Vidal called which fictional painter "an essentially dignified drunk with nothing to say"?
9. Which feminist wrote the 1991 memoir The Loony-Bin Trip?
10. Which midget author was famed for walking around Paris dressed as a cyclist with two pistols and a green umbrella?
11. In a much-loved film, who is Inmate 37927?
12. Geographically speaking, where would you find Pik Lenin, Pik Karl Marx and Pik Engels?
13. In cookery what is fumet?
14. According to Napit.co.uk, what is "Yorkshire's seaside racecourse with a history of racing stretching back to 1872 when races were held on the nearby beaches"?
15. Who was killed on June, Friday the 13th in 1930 shortly after he had achieved a new world record of 98.76mph in Miss England II on Lake Windemere?
16. The first so-called "alphabet heavyweight champion", which boxer sang with a group called The Knockouts, lost the WBA title to Muhammad Ali in 1967 and was nicknamed The Octopus because he grabbed and held his opponent alot when he was fighting?
17. The North Korean film industry created Pulgasari as a riposte to which famous movie creature?
18. Art Paul is most famous for creating which iconic magazine symbol?
19. What German word describes a type of song that gets stuck in our heads because they create a "brain itch" that can only be scratched by repeating the tune constantly?
20. Who called the Conservative Party "being by the law of their existence the stupidest party"?

Answers to BH quiz #8
1. Jim Thompson 2. A large bruise or even a black eye (opinions vary) 3. Pepsi-Cola 4. Yves Klein 5. Billy Cotton 6. Maxwell Smart in Get Smart 7. Christopher (Robin) Milne 8. George Peppard 9. Fuchsia 10. Pamela Stephenson 11. Sergei Lukyanenko 12. Sophiatown 13. Arecibo 14. Julian HF Grenfell 15. Millard Fillmore 16. Himeji 17. Thomas Macaulay 18. Blimp 19. AK-47 20. Persimmon (pasiminan) 21. Rosebuds